transship
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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The defendants engaged in a "deliberate and deceptive effort to transship controlled Nvidia GPUs to China by falsifying paperwork, creating fake contracts, and misleading US authorities," Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
The Persian Gulf remains a major waterway for trade, ranging from cargo ships that transship onto the rest of the world and energy shipments from the oil-rich Gulf Arab states.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Send North Korean goods to China and transship them to South Korea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2018
Here, instead of lightering, overseas ships tie up at a new pier, unload into junks of sufficiently shallow draft to make the mud banks up to Whampoa, or transship for Tientsin and Dairen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pietro's injunction caught me before I could transship, but with another chance, I might have gotten the stuff to Mars in time....
From Let'Em Breathe Space by Del Rey, Lester
Spain is part of the European Union common market, so Spanish products could be transshipped through other EU countries and easily reach U.S. shores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Under the July agreement, goods deemed to be "transshipped" face an additional 40 percent duty.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
Canada and Mexico were granted exemptions from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum first imposed by Trump, but those agreements contain provisions aimed at preventing “surges” of imports and products transshipped from other countries.
From Reuters ● Feb. 15, 2022
At first, the detection of transshipped honey relied on a simple test for an unapproved antibiotic, chloramphenicol, discovered in Chinese honey.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2015
Only Tool had easy access to work, acting as muscle on valuable goods as they transshipped to the Mississippi and the rail yards.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
The tariffs in the order apply to chips imported to the U.S. that aren’t used domestically for artificial intelligence purposes but are then exported to another country, a practice called transshipping.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
The Commerce Department last month said it would investigate China Zhongwang Holdings Ltd. for trying to avoid U.S. import tariffs by transshipping aluminum through third countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2016
The cost of exhuming and transshipping all the shattered, canvas-wrapped remains might run to $200 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
Convoys could steam direct from the U.S. to the broad, sheltered Cherbourg roadstead without transshipping their cargoes in Britain.
From Time Magazine Archive
One boat—that commanded by Mr. Lowe, the Fifth Officer—did, after transshipping some of its passengers into other boats, and embarking a crew of oarsmen, venture back into the dark centre of things.
From Titanic by Young, Filson
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